Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year
DOKU Experience Center - LuYang
September 14th – October 22nd, 2023
From 14 September to 22 October 2023, MUDEC hosts the new exhibition of “Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year”: on display DOKU Experience Center by LuYang, who in 2022 won the prestigious Deutsche Bank international prize dedicated to art Contemporary.
The exhibition is curated by Britta Färber, Global Head of Art & Culture at Deutsche Bank.
Among the most interesting contemporary young Asian artists, LuYang is inspired by science fiction, manga, video games and techno culture, exploring hypermodern technologies and contents that concern posthumanism and transhumanism.
His reflection blurs the distinctions between real and digital body and finds expression above all in dance, a recurring theme in his practice.
The DOKU Experience Center exhibition is entirely dedicated to these themes and, in particular, to the virtual reincarnation of the artist – i.e. Dokusho Dokushi, or DOKU for short – into a gender-neutral avatar, a hyper-realistic figure whose face is modeled on his but can take different
likeness.
The exhibition brings together and for the first time the six different avatars created by LuYang – Human, Heaven, Asura, Animal, Hungry Ghost, Hell – who embody the six realms of rebirth of Samsara, the karmic wheel of life which symbolizes the eternal cycle of birth, death and reincarnation
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Mon – Fri 9:00 – 18:00
September 14th – October 22nd, 2023
Monday 2.30pm – 7.30pm
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday 9.30am – 7.30pm
Thursday, Saturday 9.30am – 10.30pm
LAST ENTRY ONE HOUR BEFORE CLOSING
Mudec – Museo delle Culture
via Tortona 56, Milano
Film Still from DOKU the Matrix, 2022
3D-Animationsfilm / 3D animation film 4:42 min.
© LuYang, courtesy the artist and Société, Berlin
Deutsche Bank Collection
LuYang, 2023
Foto / Photo: © Wang Shenshen